Unbounded integer parsing in JSON.decode/1 enables CPU and memory exhaustion denial of service in Elixir (elixir-lang elixir)

CVE-2026-115274
MEDIUM 6.9

En bref

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.50 % · centile 43 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
Attribuée par
EEF
Statut NVD
Deferred

Description

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in the Elixir standard library's JSON module allows an unauthenticated attacker who supplies a JSON document to cause a denial of service through CPU and memory exhaustion. JSON.decode/1 and JSON.decode!/1 convert each integer literal with erlang:binary_to_integer/1 and do not bound its length. A literal of one million digits decodes successfully but costs 100 to 300 times as much CPU as a string of the same length, so one request body of a few megabytes holds a scheduler for about a second. A literal of more than about 1.29 million digits raises SystemLimitError. Applications generated by phx.new decode request bodies with JSON in Plug.Parsers, before routing and authentication. This issue affects elixir: from 1.18.0-rc.0 before 1.18.6, from 1.19.0-rc.0 before 1.19.7, and from 1.20.0-rc.0 before 1.20.5.

Faiblesses (CWE)

  • CWE-1284 — Validation incorrecte d'une quantité spécifiée en entrée

Références

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NEEF
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:XNVD · 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db (Secondary)

Références européennes

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
elixir-lang · elixiraffected 1.18.0-rc.0 < 1.18.6 ; affected 1.19.0-rc.0 < 1.19.7 ; affected 1.20.0-rc.0 < 1.20.5
elixir-lang · elixiraffected 793c1147210388587defb649f25f293ffbfa6b1b < *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD